cattle plague vs animal disease

cattle plague and animal disease both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
cattle plague	Yes	No	No	No
animal disease	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, animal disease is a hypernym of cattle plague; that is, animal disease is a word with a broader meaning than cattle plague:

cattle plague: an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes
animal disease: a disease that typically does not affect human beings

cattle plague (noun)	animal disease (noun)
an acute infectious viral disease of cattle (usually fatal); characterized by fever and diarrhea and inflammation of mucous membranes	a disease that typically does not affect human beings